Frocomm Government Public Service 2.0 Social Media

 Event, government, public relations, Social Media Australia  No Responses »
Sep 042008
 

I was in Melbourne yesterday, giving the keynote at Glen Frost’s Frocomm New Media Summit conference. Great crowd, lots of thoughts flying around.

Government 2.0 and Public Servants 2.0
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Basically I went through a few different types of social media networks – blog (content), wikis (collaboration) and so forth. I also included this video of RocketOn to show the Live Web

RocketOn – a layer over normal web pages so that Avatars can chat about the news and play with pixel branded products.

…and also made mention of non-media social networks such as social telecommunications and social banking. But really I quickly showed how various Government and public sector agencies were using social media for communication.

It was a fun conference – see some more here on Walter‘s blog and Alan Parker’s.

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Different types of Social Networks

 Online Communities, social networks, user generated content  4 Responses »
Nov 212007
 

Caveat: There’s a lot of different ways of slicing and dicing social networks. In this post, I want to show the three fundamental approaches that social networks use for activity around social media. If I was writing about identity, profile and management of friends, it would be a whole different grouping of examples.. I think. Another caveat: blogs are a technology, not a social network, so they can be used in different ways e.g. a PR blog is one-to-many, but you can have group blogs (few-to-many). They can be link sites (post a link) or media blogs (whack up video, Continue Reading…